McKevitt planned to kidnap British lords, court told

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today the alleged leader of the Real IRA Michael McKevitt told him the August 1998 Omagh bombing, the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of the troubles, was a joint operation by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA.

Alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt planned to kidnap four members of the House of Lords and their sons and force them to go on hunger strike, a court heard today.

FBI agent David Rupert, the key witness in the trial of the suspected dissident republican terror chief, disclosed how he had plotted to take them prisoner in a bid to boost the 1981 fasts by Provisional inmates at The Maze prison in Co Antrim.